Reading time – 39 seconds – plus a smidgen; Viewing time – 2:07 . . . I scored a fresh travel horror story recently, but this post isn’t about my lousy experience It’s about how the airline first created it and then made things worse. Twenty-five minutes before departure the
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Reading time – 66 seconds – slightly longer for the first post of the year; Viewing time – 2:29 . . . Vince Lombardi famously started each of his training camps for the Green Bay Packers with a speech to the team. These veterans and rookies alike, all great athletes,
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Reading time – 31 seconds; Viewing time – 1:34 . . . Recently, I did a facilitation and training for an entire company. They’re poised for dramatic growth and needed both focusing and a vehicle to bring all the voices into the conversation, so that’s where I guided the session.
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Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:37 . . . What do you believe? Can you make a short list of those things you believe down to your DNA, or at least your most important beliefs about being a leader? I suspect that crafting your own list would
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Reading time – 12 seconds . . . Yup, the smart guys at Texas Business Radio invited me to their program again, this time to talk about vision, as in: “Why do you do what you do (and I don’t mean for the paycheck)?” Trust me that it’s quite an
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Reading time – 26 seconds; Viewing time – 45 seconds . . . The people of the Gulf Coast are going to need help for a long time. Tens of thousands of residents have lost everything but what they’re wearing. Tens of thousands more are and will be digging the
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Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:15 . . . It’s an amateur choir, but the sound these folks make is stunning. They performed for years under the leadership of their much beloved director, who died suddenly and unexpectedly. The search for a new director began and they
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Reading time – 36 seconds; Viewing time – 1:33 . . . Andi Simon is a corporate anthropologist. “A what?” you reply. Corporate anthropologist. She self-describes this way: Andi Simon is a Corporate Anthropologist who helps executives see their companies with more observant eyes, achieve “aha!” moments, and discover new
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Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:56 . . . In a recent discussion with a group of fellow leadership development people I offered that what we do is to provide guidance to generate the culture that creates the success clients want. Sounds simple, right? Not so much.
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Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 2:17 . . . The first test to determine if you’re a leader is to look over your shoulder to see if anyone is following. The second test is to identify whether they’re giving their best. Why that second question? Because everyone
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